41. The Crossing of the Alps 41\. A Travessia dos Alpes

Postquam Ligures hoc modo superati sunt, Hercules quam celerrime progressus est et post paucos dies ad Alpes pervenit. After this Ligurian defeated Hercules forward as quickly as possible, and after a few days in the Alps arrived.

Necesse erat has transire, ut in Italiam boves ageret;

res tamen summae erat difficultatis; hi enim montes, qui ulteriorem a citeriore Gallia dividunt, nive perenni sunt tecti;

quam ob causam neque frumentum neque pabulum in his regionibus inveniri potest.

Hercules igitur antequam ascendere coepit, magnam copiam frumenti et pabuli comparavit et hoc commeatu boves oneravit. Let me tell you, then, before he began to go up, and this is a great plenty of corn and fodder, as compared the provisions of the oxen, he weighed down with.

Postquam in his rebus tres dies consumpserat, quarto die profectus est, et contra omnium opinionem boves incolumes in Italiam traduxit